The Man Booker International Prize longlist is truly international
The morning after the Folio Prize winner was announced, another prize shortlist came to our attention: the Man Booker International Prize, one of the most interesting prizes around. Launched in… Read more »
Dear Haruki Murakami
What do you do if you’re a self-confessed loner, recluse and a reluctant talker, who also happens to have sold millions of novels worldwide and has a matching number of… Read more »
Was 1988 the year Australian literature died?
The newly launched Sydney Review of Books has begun, naturally, with an investigation — whither Australian literature? Is it dead? When did it die? This topic is a given in any… Read more »
Brazilian lit’s $35 million publicity campaign
What do Clarice Lispector, Paolo Coelho, and Machado de Assis have in common? Beyond being well-regarded authors, they are, among many more literary lights from Latin America’s largest country, about to… Read more »
Granta goes to China
First the New York Times, now Granta: Chinese editions are on a roll. (A “spring roll”? Hold your groans.) Paper Republic, a great blog that focuses on Chinese literature in… Read more »
A year of reading the world
Ann Morgan is a London-based writer who has set out to read books from across the globe. Inspired by the upcoming Summer Olympics, and by the desire to broaden her… Read more »